Prominent Christian writer shot dead in Jordan after being charged with insulting Islam

A prominent Jordanian writer (Pictured left) was shot dead by a
suspected Islamist gunman (Right) on Sunday, September 25th, outside
the courtroom where he was due to stand trial for insulting Islam by
sharing a cartoon on Facebook.

Nahed Hattar, a 56-year-old intellectual from Jordan's Christian
minority, was gunned down on the steps of a courthouse in Amman in what
appeared to be a religiously motivated attack. Hattar
was arrested in August for sharing a cartoon on Facebook showing a
bearded man in heaven smoking, lying in bed with women and calling on
God to bring him wine and cashew. He captioned the cartoon which he
deleted shortly after posting it:

"It mocks terrorists and their concept of God and heaven. It does not infringe God's divinity in anyway"

Mr Hattar said the cartoon was intended to mock jihadists and their
twisted interpretation of Islam but Jordan's government charged him with
insulting the faith and "provoking sectarian rifts". The writer
rejected the charges and planned to fight the case.

"I am mocking the terrorists and their conception of hell and heaven,"
Mr Hattar wrote shortly before his death. “I’m not insulting the
supreme Allah, at all, on the contrary, I’m against the type of God
that the terrorists worship

The gunman was arrested at the scene has been identified as Riyad
Ismail Abdullah, a 49-year-old imam who recently returned from making
the Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

Mr Hattar's family immediately blamed Jordan's government for failing
to protect the writer, saying the decision to publicly charge him with
offending Islam had made him a target for Muslim extremists.

"We hold the Ministry of Interior responsible," said Jamal Attar, a cousin.

"This is the first assassination in Jordan that targets a person over
nothing but his opinion, for freedom of speech. The prime minister was
the first one who incited against Nahed when he ordered his arrest and
put him on trial for sharing the cartoon." the victim's cousin Saad
Hattar said. "

Jordan's government condemned his murder, calling it an "ugly crime"
and promised "investigating the incident and holding the criminal
accountable for his offense"

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